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Khan and Trump, two scared puppies Nobody in public life knows how to get under former President Donald Trump’s thin skin like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The way she needles him with her acerbic wit and boss-lady moves is legendary. And so she remarked that he looked like a “scared puppy” at his DC arraignment last week. ‘I wasn’t in… Read more.
I published the post-election post “Trump Turns Republican Red Wave Blue for Democrats” on November 9. In it, I advised President Biden to deliver the very speech Speaker Pelosi delivered yesterday. Under that post’s sub-heading, “Now is the time to go, Joe,” I urged Biden to announce he’s passing the torch to a new generation of Democratic… Read more.
Podcast Episode 86 My blog is replete with commentaries attesting to my belief that women make better leaders than men. They range from “Cracking the Political Glass Ceiling: First Woman to Become President in South America,” December 12, 2005, to “International Women’s Day: ‘Men Should Be Barred from Politics’, March 8, 2019. But nothing vindicates… Listen.
As my post on Wednesday shows, I was among the few liberals who urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to defy China by going to Taiwan. I did so because I knew not only that China’s fiery rhetoric was just hot air, but also that Taiwan’s democracy was doomed if China could bully even the United States… Read more.
Nancy Pelosi pledged an ‘ironclad’ US commitment to Taiwan during a historic visit to the country on Wednesday that has infuriated China and raised warnings that military manoeuvres Beijing announced in retaliation would amount to a blockade of the island. The comments from the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, made during a meeting… Read more.
Episode 21: They Just Don’t Know How to Quit Him… Listen.
Donald Trump is the first politician in US history to convince the vast majority of a major political party that he can do no wrong. Even worse, he has convinced the few members who routinely condemn him for doing wrong that he should never be punished for doing so. That is idol worship truly worthy… Read more.
President Trump kicked off his state visit to the United Kingdom on Tuesday by tweeting that the mayor of London “is a stone cold loser.” This, because Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted that ‘racist groups across the world have been normalised and mainstreamed because of Donald Trump.” As they are wont to do, Trump’s apologists insisted… Read more.
